Bristol campaigners ‘70-80%’ confident of saving school
Campaigners trying to save a Catholic school in Bristol from closure say they have a 70% to 80% chance of success.
Campaigners trying to save a Catholic school in Bristol from closure say they have a 70% to 80% chance of success.
Test results for children in their final year at Bristol primary schools are continuing to improve according to the latest figures released by the government.
Shocked parents at St Ursula’s school in Bristol have urged people to support a campaign to save the independent school, after it went into administration yesterday at the invitation of the school’s trustees.
A Christian zoo near Bristol, accused of promoting creationism, has become an approved school trip destination. Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm in Wraxall,
Festival-goers could help to generate power in the future when they spend a penny, thanks to a £500,000 grant for scientists in Bristol.
One of the key figures behind the success of The City Academy will retire this summer after raising millions of pounds to raise educational achievement at the school.
Labour leadership runner David Miliband has suggested that exams for school pupils aged 16 should be scrapped in favour of a single “graduation exam” at the age of 18.
Two Bristol primary schools have won national awards for the way they teach children to read. Filton Avenue Infants and Waycroft Primary School were two of only 32 out of 19,000 primary schools in the country selected for the award.
Bristol state schools are no longer the target for “formal intervention” by the government to raise standards, a letter from ministers to the council has revealed.
Bristol secondary school pupils are missing fewer days of school – but the numbers of parents being fined for their children’s truancy has nearly tripled in a year.
